The 0805 SMD Ice Blue LEDs arrived faster than I expected today. I chose Ice Blue because this is the only shade of blue which I loved and it is literally the same colour of the Starship Warp Coils of the Star Trek genre. When the Blue LED came out during the turn of the Century, the light was uncomfortably intense.
Ah, Houston, we’ve had a problem
When I looked a the firing sequence, they did not feel right. Maybe it was the gap separating the four Ice Blue LEDs which confuses the animation. During its time in the Teat Programmer Adaptor, it was fine. Even the ‘running light’ sequence was fine too. Then it hit me.
The four LEDs are sequencing backwards. The position of the LEDs inside the Test Programmer Adaptor was good but in the re-designed circuit board, it was in reverse sequence. I was bogged down with trying to position and re-positioning the said LEDs so as to not clash with the clear part or misalign the SOP8 microcontroler with part N2. So, in the next few days, I have to figure out how to un-reverse the LEDs via software. So far, there are two routes but I am sure there is a time-saving effortless third route out there.
It would be fun, sure. Because I have never programmed a SOP8 SMD chip soldered onto a flexiPCB. It might work, or, I would have to de-solder and resolder it back…
